The Super Mystère
Aircraft Collection03

Mystère IV 8-MO C/n
312 with mixed underwing stores. In 1979 this machine has been
withdrawn from service.
Sorry for sharpnes but I did a -2 degrees correction. It took
some time to understand why my pictures often needs this. It was
not noticeable under an enlarger because instinctively you put
correctly your paper but fully evident with a film scanner which
ignores human sensations!!! Answer is easy: I'm unable when
sighting with right eye to shut the left one... So I used this
latter to sight and this helped to take pictures not level...
But hear what is fully impossible to do with right eye (except if
you are able to hand your camera and operate it with left hand!!!)
and a true advantage when working on demonstrating aircraft with
long 400 or 8OOmm lens. I explain. Sighting with left eye you are
able to firmly put the camera on your shoulder with head turned
left and so, your left hand holding the lens almost at extremity
to focuse between thumbs and major, you are building a stable
triangle considerably efficient beside any mono or tripod...and
so put a 8OOmm eye, during continuous sighting, in the landing
gear housing of a F-16 passing 30 meters to your vertical just
before to land may be quite common. Try to do this with a tripod...
To be fully descriptive when you travel from an angle more or
less 45 degrees to pure vertical, the camera slides a little from
top shoulder along your arm but remains quite stabilised on arm
and against your face to shoot at intervals or continuously as
with a camcorder.